Preparation for bread making



' obtained from the' expensive flour. The so-' Patented Feb. 3, 1925.

UNITED sTA'r PATENT OFFICE.

ROLLAND -cun'rNna, or MARION, INDIANA, AssfeNoa To numronn cnnMIcAI. wonxs, or PROVIDENCE, moD ISLAND, a co-nronA'rmN or ImoDEIsLAND.

PREPARATION FOR BREAD MAKING.

No Drawing.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, ROLLAND citizen of the United States, residing 'at Marion, county of Grant, State of Indiana,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Preparations for Bread Making, of which the following is a specification. I

, In the baking'of bread and particularly in bread making by the commercial baker as distinguished from the domestic bread making, various problems are involved both as to the character ofthe resultant loaf and as to the ingredients used. Quality both as fixed by them. This has usually meant in the trade that wheats of lower grade had to be used or blends' of higher and lower grades employed. It is increasingly diflicult to get lightness and fine texture with such flours and a great variety of practices and materials have been tried to give to the breachnade from lower grades of flour those desirable qualities which are more readily called low grade flours are in reality as nutritious and as valuable as foods as are the so-called high grade flours. The principal difference lies in' the appearance of the bread as to whiteness and in the greater difliculty in making up the so-called low grade flours into bread which compares favorably in lightness and texture.- It is therefore of great economical importance to conserve these flours by providing means for utilizing them for acceptable first class. bread making instead of being compelled to use them for other purposes. I r

I have discovered that the quality of bread made from any grade of flour may be improved both as to lightness and fineness of texture by the addition of a gum of cer- 'tain characteristics. The gum that I find most advantageous is what'i-s known asgum tragacanth, but I believe that. ;-there' are other gums that may prove a" bead- CURTNER, a.

sources which recommend Application filed May 29, 1924. Serial No. 716,689.

vantageous, although of those tried out by me the gum tragacanth seems to be best.

This gum has been used in the confectionery trade for a long time and is well known as having no harmful properties if eaten. Its uses in the candy trade, however, have been very different from its use-in bread. The peculiar part about its use in bread making is that only a very slight amount of it is needed to give the desired results. In this it difl'ers essentially from its part in the candy making trade where it isde ended upon to form a body for paste or li e confections.- For example, in bread making I take for. any usual batch of flour, say of standard barrel weight, only one-half ounce of gum tragac'anth' This 7 der and mix well with one and one-halfounces of salt and sufiicient starch to make a pound. I work the gumentirely through the body of the flour or starch and then in turn work the body of the flour 'or starch carefully through .the entire batch of one barrel of -flour which I use for my dough.

The dough is then mixedup with the yeast v and other ingredients and raised and baked carefully pow;

in the usual manner. For any given flour I and previous System ofbaking this slight .addi-tion shows marked improvements in the result. Not only does the dough work better in handling but the loaves produced are very light and of very'fine grain. They also have an unusual. freshness and keepmuch longer than bread otherwise made. In fact, such bread seems to keep fresh at least half again as long as ordinary bread under the same conditions.

I am not able to explain exactly what happens in the mixing and in the baking. I can only point out to the practical baker results that are perfectly definite.

As I have said before, there may be other gums as good as gum tragacanth, but in my own experience I find this gum best, al-. though rather more expensive. There/are other gums that I am told come from similar give improved results, but I gum tragaoanth as the one I have found to be of highest efficiency. In claiming my invention therefore I do not wish to be limited'to the use of gum tragacanth alone nor to the exact amounts as they may be found to vary w1th d1fl:'erent gums and different flours. All similar gums and all similar amounts and all manners of mixing are to be understood as included in my invention or discovery as defined in the following claims.

What I therefore claim and desire to secure by LettersPatent is:

1. In the making of yeast leaven bread, the addition to the flour therefor of a. pulverized vegetable gum of the class described dispersed therein.

2. In the making of yeast leaven bread, the addition to the flour therefor of a pulverized vegetable gum of the class described dispersed therein in an edible medium of vegetable origin in mixing, raising and bak- 1n 3. In the making of yeast leaven bread, the addition to the flour therefor of, pulweaves vcrized gum tragacanth of the class dcscribed dispersed therein in mixing, raising and baking.

4. A bread made from a flour mixture having a pulverized vegetable gum uniformly distributed therein and glutenously effective to hold the leavening gases.

5. A bread made fro-m a flour mixture having pulverized gum tragaeanth distributed therein and gluetenously effective to hold the lcavening gases.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HOLLAND CURTN ER. Witnesses:

CORNELTA J. COLLINS, H. H. BLINN. 

